We concluded our study – “Why Work to Decolonize?” on Wednesday December 2.
Here’s the full playlist – Sessions 1 – 4:
We look forward to continuing our commitment to work in this area of anti-racism and the Church in 2021.
Make sure to read the YouTube video descriptions to go deeper on this subject.
We pray that more intentional work will be accomplished in improving the situation for our Indigenous communities in Canada. Promises must be kept in order for healing and reconciliation to move forward.
Order of Service – Sunday November 29, 2020 @ 10:30AM
We continue our live broadcast from the Sanctuary this morning. We remain closed to public worship. Rev. John, Fred, our Scripture Reader, and our Tech Team are present this morning.
We are now able to livestream (broadcast) via YouTube each Sunday. You don’t need a link like ZOOM. Just visit our St. Andrew’s Guelph YouTube Channel and select the live service. Thanks to our Tech Team for making this further option available. You can now invite your friends and families to our YouTube channel instead of worrying about ZOOM links.
*Prelude – “O come, O come Emmanuel” (arr. R. E. Schram)
Introit – “Hope is a star” (Moon Beams)
The Lighting of the Advent Wreath – The Prophets’ Candle
You are also invited to sign up for Pre-Authorized Remittance (PAR). Instead of using offering envelopes or giving online, you can set up a regular donation through your financial institution. To learn more, click here.
Presbyterians Sharing is how we support our denomination as a whole. Your gifts the variety of missions and ministries that The Presbyterian Church in Canada supports throughout Canada. It also ensures that we are well resources by our National Office staff.
If you are able, the MOCC would encourage you to consider donating to Presbyterians Sharing. You can do so here: https://www.gifttool.com/donations/Donate?ID=2034&AID=2428 (Make sure that you indicate that you are from St. Andrew’s Guelph on the online form in order for it to count towards our commitment)
Or you can make a donation directly to Presbyterians Sharing through St. Andrew’s Guelph. Please mark your donation: Presbyterians Sharing.
We are making a difference TOGETHER.
If you’d like to make a donation to Presbyterian World Service and Development (PWS&D) you can do so here:
Join this week for our LAST Thursday Morning Bible Study of the season. We gather by ZOOM each Thursday at 10AM to discuss the Scripture reading for the Sunday coming… and often, many other things of a spiritual flavour. Join us. If you’d like to receive the link, please email revjohn[at]standrewsguelph[dot]com. Or subscribe to our regular emails below.
This week’s text is: Matthew 25: 31 – 46
Thursday Morning Bible Study will resume again on Thursday January 7.
We gather by ZOOM each Thursday at 10AM to discuss the Scripture reading for the Sunday coming… and often, many other things of a spiritual flavour. Join us. If you’d like to receive the link, please email revjohn[at]standrewsguelph[dot]com. Or subscribe to our regular emails below.
Starting Wednesday November 11 at 7PM by ZOOM, Rev. John will facilitate a conversation based on the “Why Work to Decolonize?” study guide provided by The Presbyterian Church in Canada in collaboration between the National Indigenous Ministries Council and The Life and Mission Agency (Justice Ministries). This is a study based on the Interim Report of the PCC on the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
If you are interested in joining the conversation, please contact Rev. John (revjohn[at]standrewsguelph[dot]com.
You are also welcome to review the study on your own. You can download it here:
And if you’d like to go deeper, please consider visiting the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls website: https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/
Our conversations over the next four weeks will be recorded and posted on our website.
Rev. John will be on Study Leave from Sunday November 1 until Wednesday November 4. He will return to “the office” on Thursday morning for Bible Study.
During this time, he will not be available via phone or email. If you have a pastoral emergency, please contact The Rev. Diane Boyd (her phone number is available from the most recent congregational email blast).
We gather by ZOOM each Thursday at 10AM to discuss the Scripture reading for the Sunday coming… and often, many other things of a spiritual flavour. Join us. If you’d like to receive the link, please email revjohn[at]standrewsguelph[dot]com. Or subscribe to our regular emails below.
We hope you will consider supporting this valuable program, particularly as community members are seeking our support more than ever before. Each year we hear from CCSC guests how grateful they are to receive this gift and that, for many, it is the ONLY gift they receive. For this reason we ask that you include new, good quality items in their original packages. Please note that there is no need for the items to be gift wrapped. Christmas Gift Bags can be delivered in new, reusable shopping bags. Donors will have to provide their own bags this year.
Given the health and safety considerations of the pandemic, Chalmers is adjusting how they do things, in order to ensure our volunteers, guests and donors can be giving and receiving as safely as possible. As a result, the contents of the bags have changed slightly this year. Please do not deviate from this list so that we can ensure that all guests are treated equally.
Regular size shampoo (not conditioner) Single toothbrush in its packaging Toothpaste and/or dental floss Shower gel, body wash, or soap Boxed candy or boxed chocolate (not homemade and not Halloween candy) Small jar of instant coffee, box of tea bags, or tin/box of hot chocolate (no coffee pods)
If shopping for a Christmas bag in 2020 is not something you can do this year, please consider donating financially via St. Andrew’s to the Campaign. With your financial contribution, Chalmers will purchase items to fill a Christmas bag on your behalf. Be sure that your donation is clearly designated to the Chalmers Christmas Gift Bag Campaign.
This year’s final delivery date to Chalmers Downtown is Tuesday December 1st.
Deliveries can be made to Chalmers Downtown (41 Macdonell Street) on a) Tuesdays in October and November and December 1st between 10 am and 11 am, or b) Thursday November 19th from 6-8 pm or c) Thursday November 26th from 6-8 pm.
If you deliver to Chalmers directly, please make sure your donation is credited to St. Andrew’s. If you cannot deliver to Chalmers, contact Rhonda at rhondawright102[at]yahoo[dot]com to arrange a pick-up.
Yours in Christ,
The Mission and Outreach Coordinating Committee (MOCC)
We gather by ZOOM each Thursday at 10AM to discuss the Scripture reading for the Sunday coming… and often, many other things of a spiritual flavour. Join us. If you’d like to receive the link, please email revjohn[at]standrewsguelph[dot]com. Or subscribe to our regular emails below.
We gather by ZOOM each Thursday at 10AM to discuss the Scripture reading for the Sunday coming… and often, many other things of a spiritual flavour. Join us. If you’d like to receive the link, please email revjohn[at]standrewsguelph[dot]com. Or subscribe to our regular emails below.
